Tonight we get ready to air our second Rubber Chicken Radio Hour. Combined with our Renegade Radio Hours, John Munson and I have produced almost 20 of these bad boys now, and it is always a good time.
I love the format of radio. You can add last minute sketchs, provided they don’t need preproduced sound effects, you don’t need costumes or props, you don’t need to memorize lines…it’s great! But more importantly, it’s that theater of the mind. We can do whatever we want because it’s radio! We can set a sketch in the future with Russ Stover and I riding on hovercraft chairs looking down at people riding elephants on Superior Street. We can bring Herb Bergson into a super secret cave under the DECC and show him Duluth’s secrets, including how the polar bears at the zoo really control the budget. There is no end to the fun that can be had in radio.
A few years back I saw Garrison Keillor when he brought “Prairie Home Companion” to Duluth and I was impressed with how much fun he was having onstage. Dancing, smiling, singing…none of it evident to the folks listening on their radios but it was there for us in the live audience and it was great!
I’m going to keep doing these until John doesn’t let me anymore. But I hope that’s not for many years to come.
Next one is October 30, live from Hell’s Kitchen in Canal Park! Hope to see you there!
“I’m going to keep doing these until John doesn’t let me anymore. But I hope that’s not for many years to come.”
I can’t imagine not doing these shows. It’s way more fun than WPR Regional Managers are allowed to have, normally.